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NASB | Matthew 12:46 ¶ While He was still speaking to the crowds, behold, His mother and brothers were standing outside, seeking to speak to Him. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 12:46 ¶ While He was still talking to the crowds, it happened that His mother and brothers stood outside, asking to speak to Him. [Mark 3:31-35; Luke 8:19-21] |
Subject: Jesus brothers. |
Bible Note: 2 of 4 "8. In short, what I want to know is why Joseph refrained until the day of her delivery? Helvidius will of course reply, "Because he heard the angel say, 'that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit'" [Matt. 1:20b]. And in turn we rejoin that he had certainly heard him say, "Joseph, you son of David, fear not to take unto you Mary your wife" [Matt. 1:20a]. The reason why he was forbidden to forsake his wife was that he might not think her an adulteress. Is it true then, that he was ordered not to have intercourse with his wife? Is it not plain that the warning was given him that he might not be separated from her? And could the just man dare, he says, to think of approaching her, when he heard that the Son of God was in her womb? Excellent! We are to believe then that the same man who gave so much credit to a dream that he did not dare to touch his wife, yet afterwards, when he had learnt from the shepherds that the angel of the Lord had come from heaven and said to them, "Be not afraid: for behold I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all people, for there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord" [Luke 2:10ff], and when the heavenly host had joined with him in the chorus "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace among men of good will" [Luke 2:14], and when he had seen just Simeon embrace the infant and exclaim, "Now let you your servant depart, O Lord, according to your word in peace: for mine eyes have seen your salvation" [Luke 2:29], and when he had seen Anna the prophetess, the Magi, the Star, Herod, the angels; Helvidius, I say, would have us believe that Joseph, though well acquainted with such surprising wonders, dared to touch the temple of God, the abode of the Holy Spirit, the mother of his Lord? Mary at all events "kept all these sayings in her heart" [Luke 2:51]. You cannot for shame say Joseph did not know of them, for Luke tells us, "His father and mother were marveling at the things which were spoken concerning Him" [Luke 2:33]. And yet you [Helvidius] with marvelous effrontery contend that the reading of the Greek manuscripts is corrupt, although it is that which nearly all the Greek writers have left us in their books, and not only so, but several of the Latin writers have taken the words the same way. Nor need we now consider the variations in the copies, since the whole record both of the Old and New Testament has since that time been translated into Latin, and we must believe that the water of the fountain flows purer than that of the stream. 9. Helvidius will answer, "What you say, is m my opinion mere trifling. Your arguments are so much waste of time, and the discussion shows more subtlety than truth. Why could not Scripture say, as it said of Tamar and Judah, ' And he took his wife, and knew her again no more' [Gen. 38:26]? Could not Matthew find words to express his meaning? ' He knew her not,' he says, 'until she brought forth a son.' He did then, after her delivery, know her, whom he had refrained from knowing until she was delivered." http://www.cin.org/users/james/files/helvidiu.htm Emmaus |